[Axiom-developer] Re: TeXmacs+Axiom

[Martin Rubey]

Dear Bill, *

I just installed TeXmacs (version 1.0.6 on kubuntu), but I also have trouble
getting it to work with axiom.  Additionally, it seems extremely slow, but
maybe that's due to my laptop showing its age.

Since I'm not going to use TeXmacs myself, speed is not that much an issue.
I'd just like to know how to get it work in order to be able to help others.

After starting texmacs, and finding out that I have to click on insert-session,
there was no Axiom entry in the menu.  After a little hacking, I found that
init-axiom-scm expects axiom to reside in /usr/bin/axiom, which isn't the case
on my machine, and probably not on many others, since many people will not be
root, I guess.

Thus I changed /usr/bin/axiom to $AXIOM/bin/axiom:

 (:require (url-exists-in-path? "$AXIOM/bin/axiom"))

and indeed, Axiom now shows up as a supported session.  However, I get the same
error as Ralf, although AXIOMsys and axiom certainly are in the path.  (and I
didn't modify tm_axiom either) Note however, that I'm using wh-sandbox, which
has a slightly different banner. Maybe that's the problem?

On the console I get:

address@hidden:~$ texmacs --debug-io
TeXmacs] With linked TrueType support
TeXmacs] Launching 'tm_axiom'
[BEGIN]verbatim:

Martin

"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:

> > I only see that TeXmacs' tm_axiom and the one of
> > Bill Page start AXIOMsys.
> > 
> > >>
> > >>    Unexpected End5
> > >>
> > >> (everythinng in read except a black 5).
> > >>
> > >> And there is an "axiom]" prompt. Unfortunately, the cursor 
> > >> then is right in the middle of this prompt.

> > > That the kind of symptom that I recall when tm_axiom
> > > starts the 'axiom' script which starts sman and creates
> > > the double prompt but tm_axiom has not been modified to
> > > accept two prompts.
> > 
> > Oh, since I haven't changed tm_axiom, it should still
> > call AXIOMsys, so there would be another reason for the
> > "Unexpected End".
> > 
> > Anywaym, I feel unable to correct that myself. :-(
> > 
> 
> In that case the problem is probably just that AxiomSYS
> is not executable from your PATH. For this to work you
> must set *both* the AXIOM environment variable to the
> root of your Axiom Gold installation and set the PATH
> like this:
> 
>   export PATH=$AXIOM/bin:$PATH
> 
> Then exit TeXmacs and try it again.
> 
> Regards,
> Bill Page.